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Barret Zoph

3 entries · January 2021 – February 2025

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  1. Thinking Machines Lab launches

    The founding team of roughly 30 researchers, drawn heavily from OpenAI, had no public product and disclosed no funding figure at launch.

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  2. Mira Murati and two research leaders quit OpenAI on the same day

    Murati cited wanting time for her own exploration; she went on to found Thinking Machines Lab, and Altman called the departures independent and amicable.

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  3. Google trains a 1.6-trillion-parameter Switch Transformer

    Routing each input to a single expert rather than blending several simplified prior mixture-of-experts designs, and the paper reported up to 7x faster pre-training than a dense T5 baseline.

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